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KARUNAM GOYAL

Distributed Systems Engineer.

Engineering for the AI-agent era.

Scaled payment systems to 10M+ users at CRED and Flipkart. Building Metals, FD, and fintech infra by day. Writing about distributed systems, shipping with AI, and the occasional quantum rabbit hole.

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Senior Backend Engineer · 4.5+ years · CRED & Flipkart

I specialise in low-latency distributed systems and fintech platforms. Scaled UPI to 10M users. Building Metals, FD, and new products at CRED. Now exploring AI-native infrastructure and quantum computing.

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status.log — live● ACTIVE
//Building→Metals platform (Gold & Silver) + new Resident app @ CRED — yet to launch.
//Reading→Designing Data-Intensive Applications — Kleppmann.
//Thinking→How distributed systems patterns from Flipkart UPI apply to AI-agent orchestration.
//Learning→Quantum computing fundamentals — started with IBM Qiskit docs.
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CRED Metals — Gold & Silver

Building the Metals platform at CRED — enabling users to buy, hold, and transact in Gold and Silver. Currently in active development.

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CRED Fixed Deposit

Led full architecture and delivery of the Fixed Deposit platform at CRED from scratch — partner integrations, compliance, and GTM launch.

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Whether you're hiring, building something interesting, or just want to talk distributed systems — I'm always open to a good conversation.

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